Israel Quotes · Page 113

If we thought that instead of 200 Palestinian fatalities, 2,000 dead would put an end to the fighting at a stroke, we…

— Ehud Barak

Iran was nearing completion of a new reactor capable of producing plutonium for a bomb.

— Barack Obama

Iran is the world's top sponsor of terrorism, and I am not going to stop until that problem is properly solved.

— Donald Trump

The poor people of the world tend to be the places that al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups can recruit.

— James Wolfensohn

The Israelis want security. The Arabs want dignity. And they consider the demands of each other as incompatible.

— Henry A. Kissinger

Today, fear of bloodshed is forcing us into recognizing new taboos: those of Muslims.

— Patrick Chappatte

For me, Jerusalem was united, will be under Israel sovereignty, will be the capital of Israel and the heart of the Jewish…

— Yitzhak Rabin

I've occasionally been asked to talk on Israel-Palestine. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it elicits hysteria in the community.

— Noam Chomsky

“a “national home” for the Jews in Palestine. For Britain it was a cold political calculation. To help or even permit Jews…

— Al Zelczer

“I am frequently asked if I have visited Israel, whereas yet, it is simply assumed that I have. Well, I don’t travel.…

— Isaac Asimov

You in Lebanon, your power is no match to Israel. Israel, militarily, is more powerful than you and maybe it is more…

— Bashar al-Assad

I have said the invasion of Iraq was a mistake. But I think if we're ever going to really tackle the problems…

— Hillary Clinton

If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a…

— Abba Eban

I recommended to the president [George Bush] that our focus had to be on al-Qaida, the Taliban and Afghanistan. Those were the…

— Colin Powell

There's an agreement that Syria should be a unified country, united; that it needs to be secular; that ISIL needs to be…

— John F. Kerry

To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding…

— Sam Harris

I'm worried for a war to break out between Saudi Arabia and Iran, even though I rule it out.

— Jamal Khashoggi

If the Palestinians do their part, we shall do our part and we shall have an agreement.

— Benjamin Netanyahu

I'm not Jewish but would still appreciate some acknowledgment for working on a Jewish holiday.

— Anonymous

Israel is the only country in the world that is ready to make compromises - even though it did not lose any…

— Ariel Sharon

I was surprised when Nixon passed the test and showed up in heaven, but, I guess Hitler threw off the curve for…

— Lenny Bruce

I think that anyone who moves to establish a Palestinian state and evacuate territory gives territory away to radical Islamist attacks against…

— Benjamin Netanyahu

I don't feel particularly attached to Israel - 'nationalism,' as Noam Chomsky said, 'is not my cup of tea' - but I…

— Norman Finkelstein

The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.

— Nancy Gibbs

When we ask God to 'bring an end to our enemies', we should be thinking about Iran, those evil ones who threaten…

— Ovadia Yosef

Can you believe that? She says I'm not leader enough for her. Who was she looking for... Hitler?

— Woody Allen

The United States has, unfortunately, been victimized by terrorism going back decades.

— Hillary Clinton

If Iraq fails to fully comply, the United States and other nations will disarm Saddam Hussein.

— George W. Bush

Israel has never hidden its goal, creating a vacuum in the Palestinian territory.

— Gilles Deleuze

Italy remains deeply engaged in the global fight against terrorism as well as on domestic programmes against radicalisation.

— Paolo Gentiloni

If inciting people to do that is terrorism, and if killing those who kill our sons is terrorism, then let history be…

— Osama bin Laden

Iraq is part of a legitimate American effort not to have democracy everywhere but to have democracy somewhere.

— Dinesh D'Souza

Yazidis are facing the worst genocide of our times. They have been reduced from 23 million to 1 million.

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But you really don't defeat the Taliban by…

— Colin Powell

For a good chunk of Israelis, it doesn't matter who is in power when it comes to dealing with the Palestinians. Their…

— Jonathan Katz

Electorally, the number of women who want to wear a burka is insignificant, yet it is important to defend such a minority…

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

One good way of measuring the mood in Israel is just how alert or relaxed the guards at every restaurant entrance appear…

— Elliott Abrams

There is not anti-semitism as an ideology. The civilized world must think that anti-semitism is stupid.

— Elie Wiesel

We have told the Iranian regime countless times, do not confuse President Trump's strategic patience with weakness.

— Morgan Ortagus

Obviously, I didn't think, and nobody else did, that the Iraqis were going to take ALL of Kuwait .

— April Glaspie